Search
Political Philosophy
Japan just opened to tourists for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, echoing the island country’s isolationist policies during the feudal era.
For decades, the Communist Party of China has relied on reeducation camps to reform "parasites" and persuade people to support the communist cause.
The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.
"Strategic ambiguity" has long been the West's strategy on Taiwan.
14mins
“This is much deeper than just ‘let’s figure out how we can get both sides to get along.’”
The answer to this question depends on how you define "freedom."
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
Presidential gravesites are spread out “democratically” — but this is more by accident than design.
Some question the ethics of sanctions aimed at cancelling Russian art and culture and punishing ordinary citizens.
People underestimate their opponent’s capacity to feel basic human sensations. We can short-circuit this impulse through moral reframing and perspective taking.
To Vladimir Putin, a young KGB colonel at the time, the decision was a colossal mistake.
War is peace.
We pretend as if economic sanctions are a peaceful way to coerce others into behaving. In reality, they are a potent tool of modern warfare.
Vladimir Putin adores Fyodor Dostoevsky. A close reading of the legendary author’s texts reveals the feeling might have been mutual.
In theory, history is the sum of everything that ever happened; in practice, it’s a story we tell ourselves to make sense of and justify our actions in the present.
The Bolsheviks may have created Ukraine’s current borders, but that doesn’t mean dismantling them is good for today’s Russia.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
Although saying the wrong thing could often get you killed in ancient civilizations, history shows that the ideal of free speech has deep roots.
Since Ukraine originally meant “borderland,” the territory was already a target for several kingdoms.
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
The first (double) episode has come and gone, but here’s what I hope for the series. “We are what we are, and we’re doing the best we can. It is not […]
And England almost burned themselves down as a result. “When Benjamin Franklin inveted the lightning rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it […]